BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

Hokitika Guardian, 6 May 1924, Page 2

BRITISH & FOREIGN ITEMS.

1- (CSnul.iAN AN 1) N.z. (.‘ABLE ASSOCIATION. I’OKTRAIT of KING. VERY ADVERSELY CRITICISED'. 10 LONDON, May 3. ' l Tile “Daily Express" states that the 1 ‘ problem picture of the Royal Academy 0 is undoubtedly Mr Charles Sims’s ast -nadiug portrait of the King. •t “Overseas visitors will doubtless dcI- lioum-e it. No one will quarrel with the rendering of the magnificent robes ; ol the Order of the Garter, hut the exd prossion in the King’s eyes is that of, ■s a short-sighted man who has mislaid '- his spectacles. The features are pale 1 and undistinguished, and the face if gives an impression of weariness and e dejection. d . “in extenuation it L explained that i-j the King could not spare the time to i- sit in full dress, am! Mr Sims painted e from two or three sketches made during a short sitting at Buckingham s Pahj.-e. The robes, arms and legs c ! were painted from models. It is ns- -. toni-diing that a picture painted under a 1 such handicaps should he given tin; place nf honour in the Academy.” i a . i SEA LIONS LEAVE ZOO. ! LONDON. May 3. I Two sea lions escaped from the Edin- ; burgh Zoo and mossed fluids and the . mads of a heavily populated suburb. _ ! They were found in the river 1 joith. . two miles from the Zoo. and were oap- . lured with nets after a limit. . j WASHINGTON. May 2. , : President Cuolidge announced to callers at the White House his endorsement of the proposal to exclude initnigrants ineligible for citizenship, i Spokesmen for the President exj plained that efforts to obtain an altera-V i tinn of the provision in the Immigraj tion Bill were designed merely to j phrase tite new policy most courteously. j The oflieals are said to view as certain the eventual enactment of Asiatic exclusion.